Thursday, January 31, 2008

In conjunction with our vision to gather the most wanted information about Malaysia, it’s time for us to integrate Food and Property at Malaysia Most Wanted Main Page.

First time user can choose to search for Food (Restaurant) or Property (Real Estate) related result from the Main Page, where it shall be redirected to the relevant service page.

A similar top banner is available at every service page to allow navigation between different services provided by Malaysia Most Wanted.

We shall upgrade Property (by end of February) to the similar platform as Food to encourage community participation, where user could put in comment, write reviews, rate their favourite properties, find their property using Google Maps and etc.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

We can do all the things to find good food in Malaysia, only if we know how.

We have been working very hard to come up with various ways to find good food in a easy and accurate manner, and we we want to do it better.

We need you (Yes, you) to tell us what more we could do to please you. We need recommendation and criticism :) Please feel free to start posting your feedback by leaving a comment, or email to info [at] malaysiamostwanted (dot) com.

Friday, January 04, 2008

I always found the Search feature is very important, in order for us to find the exact food that we are looking for. Initially we started with Google-styled of simple search (with only one textbox, where you can type all your search criteria in here). Perhaps this could be quite troublesome for non-techie which needed more help and guidance, thus we created the Advance (and Helpful) search.

Simple Search

Basically, there are 3 fields

Search for, where you can type in any keyword you would like to search for

Cuisine, like Chinese, Vietnamese, Halal, Vegetarian, Seafood, etc

Location, for the state, area, street or building

You don’t have to fill in all 3 criteria, just one of them will do. You could key in more criteria when you want to narrow down / filter the results.

Advance (and Helpful) Search

As you would have noticed, there is a list of recommended words shown up as you start typing in the textbox of Cuisine and Location. It gives some recommendation of words so that you could easily know what kind of options is available. The recommendation list will get shorter as you type more, narrowing the list of available options. Just click on the recommended word and it shall be filled into the textbox automatically.

Recommended word list for Advance Search

Notice that we put the double quote around the selected word, such as “Jalan Gasing”. This is to ensure the exact word “Jalan Gasing” is searched for. Without the double quote, it shall look for the word “Jalan” OR “Gasing”, and the word “Jalan” could caused a lot of irrelevant result to be returned. You could learn more about Simple Searching, or try the Location and Cuisine searching.

Remember Double Quote (") for exact word match

Now, you have the option to use Simple or Advance (and Helpful) Search to fulfilled your need for good food around Malaysia. Happy Searching!

i) By default show by Map only (used to be Hybrid – Map + Satellite images). Why? Because it loads faster and the map is clearer.

ii) Additional tab named “Google Map”, which allow to view this location on Google Maps Official Page. Why? So that you could use the Google Map Search to find other addresses, or merge with your other personal maps stored under My Maps tab (in Google Maps).

With this feature, it helps you to easily find the place, and also to spot other valuable food resources (click on the fork and spoon icon) in its surrounding areas.

Whenever you are looking at a food venue, let’s say Ninja Jones at Mid Valley, wouldn’t it be nice if you could find other similar Japanese cuisine, or check out other restaurant at the same area?

That is exactly what we are offering, Cuisine and Location linking. Look carefully at the maroon red information box at the top section, zoom to Cuisine and Location. You could find that the words are actually a red link (which is clickable) and could show you more Japanese cuisines, or find other food venues in Kuala Lumpur, Mid Valley City or Northpoint Mid Valley.

The community is very important to help to rank which food venue is actually better, so that others can actually find and visit them as well. Out of the so many Chicken Rice outlets in Malaysia, we need to know which one is better (though I could tell you which one is more popular and most viewed).

If you are lazy or want to remain anonymous, you could rate the venue by clicking on the Stars at the top of the page. We offer a 0.5 star to 5 stars rating system. Just put your mouse over the star to indicate your rating, the click on it to rate. Generally, 3 stars means average; 5 stars means highly recommended; 1 star means don’t eat there.

You could vote through the review and comment system as well. Just click on the Review button and type in a review with the ratings (mandatory, must rate). The same goes with comment, except that rating is optional. I personally feel that voting through Review/Comment is actually better, where you could tell why the food sucks or why is it damn good :)

Hopefully this would help us to find the Real best food and hidden gems in town, rather than just the popular ones. Let’s start VOTING!

Thursday, January 03, 2008

I had been more than a year since Malaysia Most Wanted FOOD was launched, and now we have more than 600++ places to find delicious food around Malaysia, and hopefully in a better and more efficient way.